Researchers at Core Security have released details of three vulnerabilities in Apple iCal scheduling application, after four months of talks with the company.
The security tools vendor said it is important for users to know about the flaws and make security precautions, even without a patch from Apple.
The iCal bugs comprise a …

All Microsofts fault anyway

As if that were the only problem with iCal

it's got really slow recently - quite happily takes half-minute to update a postponed alarm or add flight times (Lufthansa have finally started to send .ics files when you book a flight).

Jobs is probably too busy working on the DRM for the next version of the iPhone to give a toss for customers who've already paid for the stuff. I really like some of the under-the-hood improvements to Leopard but attention to detail, lads. Please!

I'm waiting

Apple installed spyware on my PC

I hate macs, I hate ipods, I don't even have quicktime installed on my PCs, so when I do a process check on one of my systems do I find something called Bonjour running (tho nothing with that name is running in my services) - a quick Google tells me its an Apple service 'mDNS' something or other (phone home) that installs with itunes and - get this, Adobe CS3 tho' it's given a different name under CS3 (a series of numbers & letters).

Wikipedia:

Spyware is computer software that is installed surreptitiously on a personal computer to intercept or take partial control over the user's interaction with the computer, without the user's informed consent.

iCal == iCrap

The Leopard version is a massive step backwards, both in terms of usability and stability. It crashes on me every single day - so I'm not surprised there are security flaws too.

Hopefully this will make Apple get off their collective arse and fix it. Sadly I suspect they'll spend five minutes patching the crashing bugs and leave the rest of the app in its current parlous state.

This is becoming serious.

I mean really this is getting beyond a fecking joke. I've said this many time before, IT only take a platform seriously when its riddled with real world security issues. How can Mac's ever get a foot hold in the enterprise when there is not one example of any security exploits outside the lab.

Us Mac people are really starting to feel left out now. With all these security issues on the Mac in circulation someone somewhere must at least make an attempt to exploit them. Pleeeeeese!

We want our Mac's to be like real computers -you know like the ones that don't work properly that you see in offices-, with proper viruses and suffer proper security exploits.

@Tony Paulazzo

Check your spyware definition. While you may not be aware it was running, it's not attempting to "intercept or take partial control over the user's interaction with the computer, without the user's informed consent." - It's just Apple's networking protocol. Quite why it's needed I'm not sure, but it's not spyware.

I quite like iCal as a product for home use, but I can't recommend it over Outlook, and it's a real shame that acceptance emails between the two have never worked. That and the fact that you cannot rename or otherwise alter an event you have accepted (other than removing it) is a bit irritating, especially when you want to remove all the rubbish that Outlook occasionally pads appointments with, like putting "Updated: ..." at the beginning of changed appointments.

Can we request some Steve Jobs icons please? There are 4 for Microhoo! after all...

@me

@ Dan Wilkinson

I can see why you'd get Ballmer and Jobs confused, Apple and MS are like two peas in a pod lately. Delayed security updates and newer versions of software that are actually worse than the previous versions? Where have we heard that before?

If only there were some third option, which wasn't so insecure and made just to make money...